zamora7
04-08-2014, 06:29 PM
Well it's about time I start another project thread since my first time didn't go as planned. This will be my second attempt to stick an ls1 into a second gen, first was an 80 Trans Am, this one a 81 firebird. First time around was tough since at the time I bought the car our hours at work were cut back for a few months and eventually it branch was shut down completely. Had offers to relocate to either Austin or Houston but I wouldn't have made it comfortably, so I declined.
I did some trading transmissions from 6 speed to auto and back to 6 speed making money off of them both times. Eventually I sold the body of the car, the the ls1 and six speed combo, I made my money back and then some. Plus I kept the parts that I had bought, and restored like sub frame, a arms, the whole front suspension pretty much, plus c5 brake kit from kore3.
At the same time I had been daily driving my ws6 got three years and felt it was time for another project since my new job allowed for such thing. Found a 1981v6 firebird in good shape for about 2k, a couple weeks after that while searching for a motor I found me a nice torch red c5z with a 402 for a good price so I jumped on it. Now I had the perfect donor now in my ws6, took out the motor and transmission and sold the car.
Substance over style will be my approach to this project, meaning getting it running and driving as good as possible, without worrying about looks, that will come at a later time. In the next six months I started taking the v6 out, buying parts, buying parts, and did I mention buying parts? I am reusing the one inch set back plates from car shop Inc from the previous project and some other parts like steering linkage from ptfb.com and an iroc steering box. As to not make the first post too long the next few will be about what I have done to the car so far. I will update with some pictures soon.
Here's the car and the donor, a 2000 ws6, six speed.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2014/04/20121115_154939_zpszfaxt1h1-1.jpg (http://s948.photobucket.com/user/zamora7521/media/20121115_154939_zpszfaxt1h1.jpg.html)
I did some trading transmissions from 6 speed to auto and back to 6 speed making money off of them both times. Eventually I sold the body of the car, the the ls1 and six speed combo, I made my money back and then some. Plus I kept the parts that I had bought, and restored like sub frame, a arms, the whole front suspension pretty much, plus c5 brake kit from kore3.
At the same time I had been daily driving my ws6 got three years and felt it was time for another project since my new job allowed for such thing. Found a 1981v6 firebird in good shape for about 2k, a couple weeks after that while searching for a motor I found me a nice torch red c5z with a 402 for a good price so I jumped on it. Now I had the perfect donor now in my ws6, took out the motor and transmission and sold the car.
Substance over style will be my approach to this project, meaning getting it running and driving as good as possible, without worrying about looks, that will come at a later time. In the next six months I started taking the v6 out, buying parts, buying parts, and did I mention buying parts? I am reusing the one inch set back plates from car shop Inc from the previous project and some other parts like steering linkage from ptfb.com and an iroc steering box. As to not make the first post too long the next few will be about what I have done to the car so far. I will update with some pictures soon.
Here's the car and the donor, a 2000 ws6, six speed.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2014/04/20121115_154939_zpszfaxt1h1-1.jpg (http://s948.photobucket.com/user/zamora7521/media/20121115_154939_zpszfaxt1h1.jpg.html)